❓ Opposition questions the delay in transferring PTA security officers to WA Police, a matter allegedly under consideration for over a year. The Minister acknowledges discussions but provides no definitive timeline for a decision.
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PUBLIC TRANSPORT — POLICE TRANSPORT DIVISION
I have a supplementary question. Has it been more than a year since the minister first asked the Public Transport Authority and WA Police to consider the option of transferring existing PTA security officers to WA Police; and, if it has been more than a year, why is it that a decision still has not been made on this matter? Mr R.F. JOHNSON
I have a supplementary question. Has it been more than a year since the minister first asked the Public Transport Authority and WA Police to consider the option of transferring existing PTA security officers to WA Police; and, if it has been more than a year, why is it that a decision still has not been made on this matter? Mr R.F. JOHNSON
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I am not sure of the exact dates the Leader of the Opposition is referring to. Mr A.P. O’Gorman : You are not sure of anything, are you? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Oh, dear, oh dear! I should keep quiet if I were the member for Joondalup. The only contribution he makes is interjections, and I have a job understanding them sometimes, I must say. The Leader of the Opposition quoted a date, but I am not sure whether that is accurate. I will certainly look into it to see whether it is. Fairly early on in the piece—if I can call a year “early on”—I was approached by WA Police and the Department of Transport, and we have been talking and negotiating. Initially, the Commissioner of Police and his officers were talking with the transport division and the CEO of Transport to try to work something out and to see what was feasible. A final solution has not come to either me or the Minister for Transport yet, but I am hopeful that something will come fairly soon and that we can put into place what I think will be a better policing and law and order solution on our trains.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON replied: I am not sure of the exact dates the Leader of the Opposition is referring to. Mr A.P. O’Gorman : You are not sure of anything, are you? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Oh, dear, oh dear! I should keep quiet if I were the member for Joondalup. The only contribution he makes is interjections, and I have a job understanding them sometimes, I must say. The Leader of the Opposition quoted a date, but I am not sure whether that is accurate. I will certainly look into it to see whether it is. Fairly early on in the piece—if I can call a year “early on”—I was approached by WA Police and the Department of Transport, and we have been talking and negotiating. Initially, the Commissioner of Police and his officers were talking with the transport division and the CEO of Transport to try to work something out and to see what was feasible. A final solution has not come to either me or the Minister for Transport yet, but I am hopeful that something will come fairly soon and that we can put into place what I think will be a better policing and law and order solution on our trains.
I am not sure of the exact dates the Leader of the Opposition is referring to. Mr A.P. O’Gorman : You are not sure of anything, are you? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Oh, dear, oh dear! I should keep quiet if I were the member for Joondalup. The only contribution he makes is interjections, and I have a job understanding them sometimes, I must say. The Leader of the Opposition quoted a date, but I am not sure whether that is accurate. I will certainly look into it to see whether it is. Fairly early on in the piece—if I can call a year “early on”—I was approached by WA Police and the Department of Transport, and we have been talking and negotiating. Initially, the Commissioner of Police and his officers were talking with the transport division and the CEO of Transport to try to work something out and to see what was feasible. A final solution has not come to either me or the Minister for Transport yet, but I am hopeful that something will come fairly soon and that we can put into place what I think will be a better policing and law and order solution on our trains.
Mr A.P. O’Gorman : You are not sure of anything, are you? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Oh, dear, oh dear! I should keep quiet if I were the member for Joondalup. The only contribution he makes is interjections, and I have a job understanding them sometimes, I must say. The Leader of the Opposition quoted a date, but I am not sure whether that is accurate. I will certainly look into it to see whether it is. Fairly early on in the piece—if I can call a year “early on”—I was approached by WA Police and the Department of Transport, and we have been talking and negotiating. Initially, the Commissioner of Police and his officers were talking with the transport division and the CEO of Transport to try to work something out and to see what was feasible. A final solution has not come to either me or the Minister for Transport yet, but I am hopeful that something will come fairly soon and that we can put into place what I think will be a better policing and law and order solution on our trains.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Oh, dear, oh dear! I should keep quiet if I were the member for Joondalup. The only contribution he makes is interjections, and I have a job understanding them sometimes, I must say. The Leader of the Opposition quoted a date, but I am not sure whether that is accurate. I will certainly look into it to see whether it is. Fairly early on in the piece—if I can call a year “early on”—I was approached by WA Police and the Department of Transport, and we have been talking and negotiating. Initially, the Commissioner of Police and his officers were talking with the transport division and the CEO of Transport to try to work something out and to see what was feasible. A final solution has not come to either me or the Minister for Transport yet, but I am hopeful that something will come fairly soon and that we can put into place what I think will be a better policing and law and order solution on our trains.
The Leader of the Opposition quoted a date, but I am not sure whether that is accurate. I will certainly look into it to see whether it is. Fairly early on in the piece—if I can call a year “early on”—I was approached by WA Police and the Department of Transport, and we have been talking and negotiating. Initially, the Commissioner of Police and his officers were talking with the transport division and the CEO of Transport to try to work something out and to see what was feasible. A final solution has not come to either me or the Minister for Transport yet, but I am hopeful that something will come fairly soon and that we can put into place what I think will be a better policing and law and order solution on our trains.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON replied: I am not sure of the exact dates the Leader of the Opposition is referring to. Mr A.P. O’Gorman : You are not sure of anything, are you? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Oh, dear, oh dear! I should keep quiet if I were the member for Joondalup. The only contribution he makes is interjections, and I have a job understanding them sometimes, I must say. The Leader of the Opposition quoted a date, but I am not sure whether that is accurate. I will certainly look into it to see whether it is. Fairly early on in the piece—if I can call a year “early on”—I was approached by WA Police and the Department of Transport, and we have been talking and negotiating. Initially, the Commissioner of Police and his officers were talking with the transport division and the CEO of Transport to try to work something out and to see what was feasible. A final solution has not come to either me or the Minister for Transport yet, but I am hopeful that something will come fairly soon and that we can put into place what I think will be a better policing and law and order solution on our trains.
I am not sure of the exact dates the Leader of the Opposition is referring to. Mr A.P. O’Gorman : You are not sure of anything, are you? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Oh, dear, oh dear! I should keep quiet if I were the member for Joondalup. The only contribution he makes is interjections, and I have a job understanding them sometimes, I must say. The Leader of the Opposition quoted a date, but I am not sure whether that is accurate. I will certainly look into it to see whether it is. Fairly early on in the piece—if I can call a year “early on”—I was approached by WA Police and the Department of Transport, and we have been talking and negotiating. Initially, the Commissioner of Police and his officers were talking with the transport division and the CEO of Transport to try to work something out and to see what was feasible. A final solution has not come to either me or the Minister for Transport yet, but I am hopeful that something will come fairly soon and that we can put into place what I think will be a better policing and law and order solution on our trains.
Mr A.P. O’Gorman : You are not sure of anything, are you? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Oh, dear, oh dear! I should keep quiet if I were the member for Joondalup. The only contribution he makes is interjections, and I have a job understanding them sometimes, I must say. The Leader of the Opposition quoted a date, but I am not sure whether that is accurate. I will certainly look into it to see whether it is. Fairly early on in the piece—if I can call a year “early on”—I was approached by WA Police and the Department of Transport, and we have been talking and negotiating. Initially, the Commissioner of Police and his officers were talking with the transport division and the CEO of Transport to try to work something out and to see what was feasible. A final solution has not come to either me or the Minister for Transport yet, but I am hopeful that something will come fairly soon and that we can put into place what I think will be a better policing and law and order solution on our trains.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Oh, dear, oh dear! I should keep quiet if I were the member for Joondalup. The only contribution he makes is interjections, and I have a job understanding them sometimes, I must say. The Leader of the Opposition quoted a date, but I am not sure whether that is accurate. I will certainly look into it to see whether it is. Fairly early on in the piece—if I can call a year “early on”—I was approached by WA Police and the Department of Transport, and we have been talking and negotiating. Initially, the Commissioner of Police and his officers were talking with the transport division and the CEO of Transport to try to work something out and to see what was feasible. A final solution has not come to either me or the Minister for Transport yet, but I am hopeful that something will come fairly soon and that we can put into place what I think will be a better policing and law and order solution on our trains.
The Leader of the Opposition quoted a date, but I am not sure whether that is accurate. I will certainly look into it to see whether it is. Fairly early on in the piece—if I can call a year “early on”—I was approached by WA Police and the Department of Transport, and we have been talking and negotiating. Initially, the Commissioner of Police and his officers were talking with the transport division and the CEO of Transport to try to work something out and to see what was feasible. A final solution has not come to either me or the Minister for Transport yet, but I am hopeful that something will come fairly soon and that we can put into place what I think will be a better policing and law and order solution on our trains.
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